Thommie Bergman

Thommie Bergman is regarded as one of Sweden's pioneers in the NHLArticle in HockeysverigeRead the sourceArticle in SportbladetRead the sourceClose. Thommie BergmanArticle in Svenska IshockeyförbundetRead the sourceClose played youth hockey in Munkfors. In an older Hockeysverige interview published in 2017Article in HockeysverigeRead the sourceClose, he recalled joining Munkfors’s senior team at 15. He also described a season when he formed a defence pairing with Lennart PrestbergArticle in HockeysverigeRead the sourceClose.

In the same interview, Bergman said that Stig KarlssonArticle in HockeysverigeRead the sourceClose helped arrange his move to KB 63. During a visit to Karlskoga Idrottshistoriska SällskapArticle in Karlskoga Idrottshistoriska SällskapRead the sourceClose on 13 April 2023, he recalled that Lennart “Sly” Eriksson had been his defence partner at KB from the first day.

The older Hockeysverige interview also included a memory of transfer paperwork: Bergman described how a post office was opened late so the papers could be stampedArticle in HockeysverigeRead the sourceClose. He remembered another specific detail from a Detroit camp: among 89 players, he wore number 89Article in HockeysverigeRead the sourceClose on his training jersey.

During his final playing years in Södertälje, from 1981 to 1983Article in Svenska IshockeyförbundetRead the sourceClose, Bergman attended GIH’s hockey programme in Stockholm.